Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 20:13:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Gilles Boccon-Gibod <gilles@opentv.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP ! (boot info) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970404201141.2591A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970404180208.330I-100000@carrot.opentv.com>
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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Gilles Boccon-Gibod wrote: > I installed FreeBSD on my 2nd SCSI drive in a machine that has 2 IDE and > 2 SCSI drive. > > I use LILO or the IBM OS Loader to boot from the SCSI drive. At this > point, I get the FreeBSD boot prompt. If I press enter, it boots the > kernel, and then it fails to mount the / partition, because it thinks it > is on sd3a, where in fact it is on sd1a > To get it to work, I have to enter: > > 3:sd(1,a) > > at the boot prompt. > > The question is: why does it get confused about the ID of the disk it > booted from (it think it booted from sd(3,a) ), and how can I modify > something so that it will do the right thing without me having to enter > '3:sd(1,a)' at the boot prompt every time I want to boot ? Try rebuilding your kernel and modify the 'kernel' config line to point to sd3a. If you have two SCSI drives, why does it probe on sd3? > PS2: the machine has an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard with an NCR SCSI > conroler (and SCSI BIOS). I have virtually the same thing, although I boot from the IDE disks and don't have any SCSI ones. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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